English-Italian translations for monarchy

• monarchia
  Il Bahrein, al contrario, è una monarchia costituzionale relativamente moderna e progressista. In contrast, Bahrain is a relatively modern and progressive constitutional monarchy.
  E' forse allora una relazione contro la monarchia? So might this be a report against the monarchy?
  In ogni caso, uno dei loro obiettivi non potrà essere raggiunto: l' abolizione della monarchia costituzionale. In any case, they will not achieve one of their aims, which is to overthrow the constitutional monarchy.

Definition of monarchy

• A government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler
• The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom
• A form of government where sovereignty is embodied by a single ruler in a state and his high aristocracy representing their separate divided lands within the state and their low aristocracy representing their separate divided fiefs

Examples

• An absolute monarchy is a monarchy where the monarch is legally the ultimate authority in all temporal matters.
• A constitutional monarchy is a monarchy in which the monarchs power is legally constrained, ranging from where minor concessions have been made to appease certain factions to where the monarch is a figurehead with all real power in the hands of a legislative body.

Related words

• monarchic